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The treasury has a one-page breakdown of the kinds of debt. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2018/opd... It's not a deep dive but I thought it was a great overview for fitting on one page.

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19k could be paid off by a single person, has this increased in the last two years?

Take another look at the table - the values are denominated in millions of dollars, and that second symbol is a comma, not a period, so it's 19 million million.

In tiny print above that: (Millions of dollars)

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